Protect the Wild news round-up 29/08/2023
News stories and opinion pieces we've written between 19/08 and 29/08 that you may have missed.
Scottish Greens describe grouse shooting as 'festival of violence'
The barbaric grouse shooting season began on 12 August, the 'Inglorious 12th'. The Scottish Green Party has sent a clear message to gamekeepers and wealthy shooters that the blood sport is not welcome in Scotland.
It's time for Scotland to join Wales and ban snares
The Scottish government is asking for views on whether the use of snares should be "banned as part of new plans to protect vulnerable wildlife" and whether inspectors from the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) "should be given extra legislative powers to investigate wildlife crime".
Protecting the Wild Equipment Fund #2 - another group supported!
Last week we've sent recording equipment to a small group of independent monitors who cover NE Yorkshire, especially watching over the numerous hunting packs that range over the North York Moors National Park
Hunt saboteurs 'seriously assaulted' while monitoring a deer hunt
Hunt saboteurs in the southwest have said that hunt followers "seriously assaulted" two members during a deer hunt. The attack hospitalised one sab and smashed up a vehicle.
Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt filmed ripping up fox
For hunters whose bloodlust knows no bounds, it's cub hunting season: a time when they can train their hounds to murder defenceless fox cubs.
Yet another pet seriously injured by hunting hounds
Essex and Suffolk Hunt hounds mauled a pet dog in Layham, Suffolk, on 15 August. The hounds were being exercised when the attack happened.
JAILED: Twin brothers who left a charity cyclist to die
Twin brothers who left a charity cyclist to die on a remote Highland roadside after hitting him with their pick-up truck before hiding his body in a stink pit (a pit where gamekeepers dump animal carcasses) have been jailed for a total of 17 years and three months.
Punching a horse is atrocious, but so is murdering fox cubs
Most people reading Protect the Wild already know this, but it bears being said. The media circus around Sarah Moulds highlights Britain's broken relationship with other animals.
